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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: Northgates (and others) won't install OS/2 2.0!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.213447.4391@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <laird.714615414@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug31.213857.2914@datascope.com> <laird.715527671@stable.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:34:47 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <laird.715527671@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
- >(I thought I'd keep this public since I think it is potentially
- >important to many people.)
- >
- >My BIOS is up to date; I called it in to the distributor (Washburn
- >and Co.?).
- >
- >I removed my SCSI, FAX, and 8MB daughter board (leaving me with 8MB)
- >before installing (the nth time). This left me with the FDD/IDE HD
- >interface (Western Digital?) and a VGA video card (swapped an Orchid
- >Prodesigner II, Sota VGA/16, and no-name ET3000). The serial and
- >parallel ports are on the motherboard (but can be disabled).
- >
- >I also tried the ST506 fix (just for kicks).
- >
- >These changes did not help at all.
- >
- >--kyler
-
- OK. I have a Northgate 333 with 8MB, Prodesigner II VGA, and a
- 200 Meg IDE drive. No problems. So what is different? I will think
- about it. Something doesn't make sense.
-
- ---Jay Davis
-
-